Colossal Youth
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Many of the lost souls of Ossos and In Vanda’s Room return in the spectral landscape of Colossal Youth, which brings to Pedro Costa’s Fontainhas films a new theatrical, tragic grandeur. This time, Costa focuses on Ventura, an elderly immigrant from Cape Verde living in a low-cost housing complex in Lisbon, who has been abandoned by his wife and spends his days visiting his neighbors, whom he considers his “children.” What results is a form of ghost story, a tale of derelict, dispossessed people living in the past and present at the same time, filmed by Costa with empathy and startling radiance.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Film remastered from the digital camera original, under the supervision of director Pedro Costa
- New video conversation between Costa and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
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DIRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Film remastered from the digital camera original, under the supervision of director Pedro Costa
- New video conversation between Costa and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
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Cast
- Ventura
- Vanda Duarte
- Paula Barrulas
- Cila Cardoso
- Silva 'Nana' Alexandre
- Alberto 'Lento' Barros
- Beatriz Duarte
- Paulo Nunes
- Gustavo Sumpta
- António Semedo
- José Maria Pina
Credits
- Director
- Pedro Costa
- Producer
- Francisco Villa-Lobos
- Cinematography
- Pedro Costa
- Cinematography
- Leonardo Simões
- Editing
- Pedro Marques
- Producer
- Philippe Avril
- Producer
- Andres Pfaeffli / Elda Guidinetti
- Sound
- Olivier Blanc
- Sound
- Vasco Pedroso
- Sound
- Jean-Pierre Laforce
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